From Entertainment Correspondent Sherri Sylvester
LOS ANGELES,California (CNN)-- This is a reasonable cinematic situation for action man Sylvester Stallone. Not so, for comic Rob Schneider, who found himself taking fake bullets alongside Stallone. Making "Judge Dredd" gave Schneider a close-up view of superstar treatment, none of it directed toward him.
Schneider said, "I had a hotel room; he had a hotel floor. That was the first clue there was a difference here." Clue number two came when Schneider and Stallone shot this stunt on a motorcycle.
Schneider continued, "We were on the same motorcycle breaking through a wall and there's an explosion and there's dust and there's dirt and there's wood. We're caked and we're covered in it and they yell cut and the first assistant director says, 'A bucket of water for Mr. Stallone' and that was it. And I'm on the bike too, so like 'A bucket of crap for Mr. Schneider.'"
This was a unique situation for Diane Lane as well, as the woman among he-men. The actress and mom had to look pumped. Lane said, "Eleanor was only 10 months old when I arrived in England. It was a long way to come to get that hard look, to get muscles showing in your thighs when you just stand there. That's gone by the way...I mean that's a lifestyle. I'm a mom. I have to run around after somebody."
Lane should count herself lucky she was not in one scene. It was Schneider who
had to match steps with Stallone in the fireball sequence (580k QT movie).
Schneider commented, "It's a big gas fireball and it really is right behind us and it's a big 100 foot tube and I notice my starting line is 3 feet behind Sly's starting line and I go, 'Excuse me, what's going on? Why am I starting behind you?' and he's going. 'Well, it's the kind of shot they're trying to get.' Yeah my ass, I wanna start where you're starting."
No one got burned by any of the action. And in the final film, the work of Rob
Schneider and Diane Lane looks...natural.
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